Originally posted by ItalianStallion
Hmm... It doesn't really sound that much......
Marathon runners will have theirs up to 130-140 for the whole race.
Cyclist (I am taking a bit of a guess here) will be around 110 for most of their races......
Rowers (and I should know this) do training sessions for 2 hours in the 140-150 range, and up to 1 hour in the 150-170 range....
Motocross, however, probably requires a lot of concentration, even during training. Possibly more than most sports.
Back to the ESPN chart, I think most values are a bit (and a fair bit) out. As a former rower, and someone who's tried lots of sports, I think those values simply do not reflect reality.
Example: I used to do 1 hour stretching every day, plus 30 minutes of core stability exercies. How come is it that rowing only scored 4.00 in flexibility? Nerve: 1.75. I guess the writer never found himself racing side by side another crew with his heart rate at about 180 bpm!!!
And rodeo..... come on.......
I'm sure there will be people here that disagree with my views, but one of the reasons I stopped rowing is the little recongnition it gets. I hope you can understand this is a bit of a touchy subject for me.
Have a great day everyone!!!
I think you misunderstood, he was probably referring to heartrate as percentages of maximum and I'm sure that the heartrate for motocross or motorcycle racing would be higher than 90 bpm and I promise you racecar drivers have the same thing because they are under tremendous amounts of stress going 200 mph where there is the chance of any slight mistake in depth perception could mean the difference between life and death.
Secondly, it wasn't necessarily writers who decided those numbers, it was a panel of journalists, sport scientists, kinesiologists who made those judgments. You should have checked on the link of who comprised that panel before saying they were just writers, all of them had pretty vaunted credentials but you're right, a couple were sport journalists.
Thomas Davis